Band of Brothers
On a rare lazy day in bed over Christmas I flipped across the last 3 or 4 episodes of the Band of Brothers mini-series on TV. A few months later I came across the middle 3 or 4 installments. Now I’ve been reading the source book by Stephen E. Ambrose, yearning for myself a life where heroism involves something more noble than finding Common Projects shoes at $100 off.
I’ll have to get my heroism vicariously for now, it seems. The entire Brothers mini-series is running on the History Channel this holiday weekend so I’ll finally be able to see how it all started. I’m excited to see the base training scenes at last. I know from my reading now that those men trained for nearly two years before ever being dropped into combat. Just imagine!
Looking ahead, The Pacific a companion WWII mini-series also produced by the Brothers team and HBO is set to air in March 2010. I’m gonna watch that one right away and in order. Mark my words.
